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WMST245 WEEK 1

WMST245 WEEK 1. WHO’S GOT THE BLUES?.

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WMST245 WEEK 1

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  1. WMST245 WEEK 1 WHO’S GOT THE BLUES?

  2. I went to a great deal of trouble to avoid having to use PINK as a P word colour. I don’t like PINK. Then, I discovered that, historically, PINK is a boy’s colour. Gainsborough`s “Blue Boy” is well known. Less well known is his companion painting entitled, “PINK Boy”.News clip from a 1927 issue of Time magazine: “In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said despatches: “The cradle . . . had been optimistically outfitted in PINK, the color for boys, that for a girl being blue.” Somewhere around the time of the Second World War PINK gravitated to the girls’ side of the fence and is still there. I make an exception for the PINK Panther. I don’t hold his color against him. I do hold its color against the notorious PINK slip. If companies had any guts they’d give out red slips that say, “You’re fired.” Red signifying the opening of veins of the suddenly hopeless. Billie Milhollandhttp://www.billiemilholland.com/

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